I will point out that one annoying thing about printing in Reader View is that the font size can’t be changed. Save the Reader View as a PDF by selecting “Save as PDF” in the Print Dialog box. Notice the differences in the output when printing a Standard View version and a Reader View version from this Rocket Yard sample: Hit ⌘P or choose “Print…” from the File menu, and Safari will automatically know that you want to print the Reader View. When it comes to printing the Reader View version of the webpage, it is as easy as you might think. To disable Safari Reader View, hit ⇧⌘R again, choose “View > Hide Reader,” or click the Reader View icon in the Address Bar again: Printing Safari Reader View You can also click the Reader View icon in the Address Bar: To turn on Safari Reader View for an article, choose “View > Show Reader,” or hit ⇧⌘R. Note: Find out more about Safari Reader in the guide, “ Ride the Waves: 8 Tricks for Better Safari Surfing.” How to Enable Safari Reader View But it isn’t just the online reading that is made more comfortable – it’s the printed version as well.

Safari Reader allows you to read an article from any supported webpage, distraction-free. In fact, it was introduced with Safari 5 in 2010. Safari Reader is not new to the Mac by any means. It is an easy solution for capturing only the blog content and its associated images from a Rocket Yard article, as well as most other posts you find online. And nobody likes ink-hogs.īut there’s no need to give up hope, for there is a light that can shine on the darkness of your printing despair. Not only can they make for a messy read later on, but they are also ink-hogs. The problem was that there were all sorts of extraneous unwanted junky-things that would print right along with what he really wanted – the content.Īds, menus, backgrounds, and footers are but a few of the offending items that get in the way of a good, clean read.

Well, it wasn’t difficult in the sense that hitting ⌘P was too much work. We recently received a comment from a reader regarding the difficulty he had printing articles from the Rocket Yard blog.

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